HYSTERECTOMY: FUNCTIONAL VERSUS ANATOMIC INDICATIONS

Embolization versus myomectomy versus hysterectomy

Uterine fibroids are the commonest tumour affecting the female reproductive tract. In many instances they are asymptomatic, but in some women there does appear to be an association with heavy menstrual blood loss and, possibly, subfertility. Classically, treatment has been surgical with hysterectomy the most common approach for women who have completed their fertility and myomectomy for those w...

Laparoscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy versus Vaginal Hysterectomy

Hysterectomy is one of the commonest gynecological operations. The outcomes following vaginal hysterectomy have been proved to be better than those following abdominal hysterectomy. Since the availability and widespread use of laparoscopic hysterectomy, the mode of hysterectomy is an issue of debate in cases of non prolapsed uteri, amongst proponents of vaginal and laparoscopic surgery. Laparos...

Abdominal versus vaginal hysterectomy: Appraisal of indications and complications in a Nigerian Federal Medical Centre

Hysterectomy is the most common gynaecological surgical procedure carried out on women globally, with over 100,000 procedures performed annually in England and 600,000 in the United States. Hysterectomies are commonly performed in many tertiary health institutions in Nigeria. It accounts for 28% of all major gynecological operations at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria: coming af...

Peripartum Hysterectomy Versus Non Obstetrical Hysterectomy

Total versus Supravaginal Hysterectomy

0 PERATIONS on the uterus for benign conditions constitute a Iarge percentage of the major operative procedures on any gynecoIogic service. The type of operation to be performed in any given case depends not onIy on the pathoIogic condition, the patient’s age, her marita1 state, the state of her genera1 heaIth and to some extent her wishes in the matter, but aIso on the experience of the surgeo...